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Show 158 TilE ORDl~ANCE OF 1787. 2. Thai in their prr~ous, proprrty, nncl territory th ey shaH uc snl>jrcL to tile go\'Cl'll lll ell \; or the U niLt'<l Stales in Conp; rc ·s a. scm ulcu, and Lo the ArLicl s or Confederation in all those cases in which the original States shall be so subjeeL. 3. That they shall be Rn hject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or· to be contracted, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apporlionmenls thereof shall be made on other Slates. 4. 1'hut their respective governments shaH be in republican forms, and hall admit no person to be a citizen who holds :wy hered itary Litle. 5. rl'hat ufter the year 1800 of the Christian era th ere shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said Stn.tcl'i otherwise thau in punishment of crimeR, wl1 creof the party shall have been duly convietcd to have bee 11 perso n:dly g11ilty. rnmt whensoever any of the sn id SLates shall have of free inhabiln nls ns many aR slmll then be in any one of the least numerous of 1 he thirt en orig inal State , such State shall be admitted by ilR dclegales into the Congress of the United SLates, on an equal fo oting with the 'aid original States, afLcr whi eh the a. ·cnt oft wo-thirdR of the U niled States, iu Congrc ·s us::;emulcd, shall be requisite in nll those cases wherein, by the confcl1eration, the assent of nine Slates is uow required; provided the consent of nine Stales to such admission may be obtained according to the llih of the Articles of Confcrleration. Until such admi sion by their d<'legntes into CongresR, any of the srrid States, nftcr tbe e tablishmcnt of their temporary government, shall have authority to kerp a sitting member in Congress, with a right of' debating, but not vot in g. rrbat the tcnitory norLh ward of the 45th degree, that is to say, of tho com pleLion of 45 degrees from tho equator, THE ORDINANCE Ob"' 1787. 159 nnd extending to the Lake of th' Woo<1~, sha11 be ca11cd Sylvam:a; that of the terri tory llll.der the 4~Lh .and 44th dc-gt ·ee.' , tha.t which li es westward of .l ..~ak.e j\1whtgall shall l>c called JIIichigania; n.nd thaL winch IS east,.vur<l thereof, with in the pcn inPnla formed by the Lakes anu water of Miehigan, Iltuon, St. Clair, and Brie shall be ~ailed Cli:-'r rone;, us, and shall in clude any part of the penlllwln. winch may extend above the 45Lh <1 grce. Of the terri tory under the 43d and 45th d •grees, that Lo the wcstwn.rd, th rour;h which the Asscnippi or Ho ·k ri ver runs, shall Jw called A:seni.·1·pia; ttnd that to the cnstwnru, in which arc the the foun ta ins of the Mu kingulll, the two Min.mieH of' Ohio, the 'Vahash, the lllinois, the ~liami of the Lake, and tho Sandusky ri ve r,·, slm1l uc en II 'd Jl l l'lropnlrnnia. Of' Lhe t •rri lo ry which lies nndet· the :JULh nncl 3 Lh d ·grccs, to which iihrtll l.Je added so much of t.hc point of land within t he fork of the Ohio unu Mississippi ns 1i •s 11nder the 371h degree, that to the westward within ancl n<ljaeen t to which arc the con fluences of the ri vers vVahash, hn.wll 'e, Tamsee, Ohio, Illinois, Mi, sissi ppi aud M is,·ou t·i , Rlm11 ue called Pulypotamia ; and thn.t to the cas l wn n.1 fn.rlher n p the 0 hio, shall be cn.lled Pohsipia. 'L'his report wa.s recommit ted to the same committee on the 1 7Lh of March and a new one was submitted on the 22d of the same month. 1.'he sccoml report agrce(l in sub-sLancc with the first. The prineipal Ji{l'ct·ence was the omi:sion of the pamgraph giving nn.mcs lo the StaLes to be formed out of t.hc vVeHLern Terri to ry. It was taken up for consid ration by Congrc. s on the 19th of April, on which cln.y, 0 11 the motion of Mr. Spa.ight, of North Caro1ina, the following clan e was sLrnck oni: rrhat nft t' the year 1800 of the Chri, tian ern. there shall be neither slavery nor involuntn.ry servt·t U(1 c m· any of. tho said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crnnes whcl'eof the purty shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty. |